cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/34575435
It is kinda nuts that the alleged warnings of the past were just priming us into thinking it is all ok for them to do.
Wow, the UK is speed running after the US, only less clowny
At least in the US there are finally some protests. When is the UK going to stand up for their rights?
Protest this, guys. You know exactly where this sort of shit is headed…
“reforms” is supposed to imply improvement, not deterioration
Reform just ultimately means change. Meaning they can get rid of those pesky things like privacy and search warrants and right to silence. If the AI says you are guilty then you are. No appeals. If it turns out later that you aren’t then you still must serve your sentence but we will correct the problem only if it impacts the provider’s bottom line.
Don’t do it. Do you see what’s going on in the US right now? All it takes is one bad regime coming to power to abuse the hell out of these kinds of tools.
That’s the idea, I am afraid.
“Facial recognition” and “major police reforms” should not be able to be used in the same sentence
Nation-wide iiiin the UK, I assume, going by the URL. Important to include which country, I feel.
Yes. I apologize. I should have mentioned it.
Brits need to wake up to the fascism in their country, it’s much more quieter than the US but no better.
I remember hearing about how Britain had so many cameras that it was a privacy nightmare as early as 2000 or 2001. The more time passes and the worse it gets and when Snowden even revealed that the UK government was trying to build a master database of all UK citizens internet activity as early as the mid 2000s it became EXTREMELY evident to me where and how Orwell got his ideas for 1984. While it might have seemed unthinkable to many, the ideas that would lead to that kind of surveillance is a lot older than many people think.
And the reason why they didn’t do it earlier is because… well, how do you do it at a time when recording equipment was costly to setup and extremely obvious AND posed no obvious benefit to the person it was being targeted at. Things like wire tapping phones has been possible since the earliest days of telephones (wire tapping became a known police/spy technique as early as 1928 in Olmstead v. United States), but in practice wiretapping all phones at the time was impossible. You couldn’t record all calls and those calls had to be listened to by a human. It was not possible. But today it is absolutely possible to do all that and more.
At least smart phones and the internet are both extremely useful and highly critical things. Having a camera in your home that doesn’t let you use it does not… but you can also use your ring camera that you set up in your home.
The problem is there is more than one branch of it happening at once. We have this stuff but we also have the far right politics which is much more blatant. What most of those morons don’t understand is that their movement is driving the justification for these overbearing technology changes yet are the first ones to cry about it.
This is the same problem that we had in the US. Neoliberalism will always lead to fascism since it breeds the economic hardship that causes fascism or revolt, and the powerful are able to tilt the scale away from revolt towards fascism, which is their preference.
The solution is to take over the more left party by any means necessary since the UK, much like the US, has a FPTP voting system. In the US, the Democrats were consistently able to rig their primaries against the more leftist candidates through a multi-level strategy. Don’t let that happen over there.
Trump is a symptom of a greater problem in the US.
Good gravy. 1984 wasn’t a guidebook.
But it was. George Orwell knew what they wanted and how they thought.
Absolutely disgusting. It’s like Labour wants to make sure they lose the next election… But to who would they lose? The conservatives who like this stuff too?
England is off my list to visit, as a Canadian, I take pride in the fact that facial recognition is illegal in most instances *here.
I am Canadian, too (naturalized citizen) and can I have the legislation that banned facial recognition?
https://idtechwire.com/alberta-court-upholds-ban-on-clearview-ai-facial-recognition-services/
Reaffirmed last year that it violates PIPA in Alberta.
Get out the ICP face paint!
Drag makeup can also be effective!
10 years ago i would have never believed UK would have their own Schutzstaffel, and that it would be AI
today i’m not surprised by literally any shitty thing that happens
I hate to say it, but I remember around 2000 the UK being called the most surveilled country in Europe due to massive numbers of cameras. I thought it was bad back then, but I had no idea how much worse it would be.
“nationwide”
“England and Wales”
Plastic surgery will have a surge in popularity
They will account for that.
